Linux-Setup Digest #339, Volume #19 Mon, 7 Aug 00 07:13:06 EDT
Contents:
multi os, Windows 2000, Redhat Linux 6.1 ("ChoongHwan Lee")
Re: NEWBIE QUESTION.. (E J)
Re: BIG mistake: Root Password forgotten (E J)
Re: Newbie Question: ATI All in wonder Card ? ("Jeff Swarens")
Re: Which distribution for file server? (Staffan Emren)
Re: How to change CLASSPATH ? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Need help for upgrade!! ("danish")
SVGATextMode (Dirk Frieborg)
NEWBIE:date problem ("nilesh bhala")
can't boot suse linux reliably ("Andy Nock")
Re: partitioning q ("Andrew E. Schulman")
Re: partitioning q ("Andrew E. Schulman")
Re: Modem doesn't work (and it's not a WinModem) (M. Buchenrieder)
Re: Error message about floppy drive (Eric)
ISDN Problems ("Markus Feldmann")
Re: How to setup X? (CDWV)
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From: "ChoongHwan Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: multi os, Windows 2000, Redhat Linux 6.1
Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2000 16:21:48 +0900
Hi~
I'm using Windows 2000 and Redhat Linux 6.1.
When booting, Win2000 boot loader is used. (not LILO).
Because default setting doesn't provide NTFS, I must recompile Linux
kernel.
But, I don't know how to setup new boot image. I think that kernel and
modules are compiled right.
The problem is how to register to Win2000 Boot loader.
I remember that I registered old Linux kernel to Boot loader as 'dd
if=/dev/hdb1 of=/bootimg.lnx bs=512 count=1' and
copied 'bootimg.lnx' to hda1 (Windows 2000 drive), and edit 'boot.ini' file.
So, I've tried the same thing after compiling new kernel. But, something
wrong.
Only the cursor is blinking...
Please help me... Thank you for reading~~~
--
ChoongHwan Lee
In the long run, making programs free is a step toward the post-scarcity
world, where nobody will have to work very hard just to make a living.
People will be free to devote themselves to activities that are fun, such as
programming, after spending the necessary ten hours a week on required tasks
such as legislation, family counseling, robot repair and asteroid
prospecting.
from The GNU Manifesto
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From: E J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat
Subject: Re: NEWBIE QUESTION..
Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2000 00:26:39 -0700
$ su -
password: <secret>
# cd /some_directory
# # remove other user read, write and execute access
# chmod o-rwx restricted_sub_directory
# # If you want to go further and remove group read, write and execute access
# chmod g-rwx restricted_sub_directory
nilesh bhala wrote:
> hello !
> i am using RedHat linux 6.1 in my office & i have some user accounts created
> on my system with their respective home directories in /home directory.
> whenever user logs in to his account , he lands into his home
> directory..that's o.k. but what's bad is that after that he is able to
> change directory and can go upto root (/) level that he is able to see all
> other folders other than his home one.i want to restrict user's to their
> respective home folders, how can i do that ?? users should not be able to
> browse outside their respective home directories ??
> thank's.
> regards---nilesh bhala
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From: E J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: BIG mistake: Root Password forgotten
Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2000 00:38:33 -0700
Ron Gaw wrote:
> Bit Twister wrote:
> >
> > When you see the lilo prompt, hit the Tab key, then
> > linux 1 or linux single
> >
> > when you get to the prompt, do a,
> > passwd root
> > new_pw_here
> > ver_pw_here
> >
> > /bin/shutdown -r now
> >
> > On Sun, 06 Aug 2000 23:27:03 -0700, Ron Gaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >I believe I am in trouble. I have forgotten my systems ROOT password.
> >
> > < snipped a lot of stuff >
> >
> > --
>
> Thank you! Here I thought it would be a problem. However, reading this
> and later messages, I understand :
>
> a: This works, but is not my idea of security
> b: All the more reason to find new security models for the actual data
> on a drive (i.e. encryption) if you really want to protect it from
> prying eyes, if not necessarily protecting it from being destroyed.
>
> Ron
Linux is quite secure, just you have to turn them on. If you want tighter
automatic security run bastille linux after install redhat.
It will prompt you on how tightly secure to make it.
You can make lilo more secure by issuing a lilo password so you cannot change the
root password as above without the lilo password.
For more details
man lilo.conf
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From: "Jeff Swarens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Newbie Question: ATI All in wonder Card ?
Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2000 07:47:36 GMT
Just a note ---- on the 128 board. I spent the last few weeks playing with
XFree 4.0 and that board. It worked well for me only in low color, low
resoluton. Might be the Boards refresh rates or sync rates or the monitors
or a little of both. Just to save you time, if you get that board. Install
a kernal that has Framebuffer support. The kernal can be told to go into
graphics mode on boot-up. After I set that up on my machine Xfree 4.0 loved
my new128 board. (1280x1024x24bpp)
"Jonathan Ashbrook" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I just installed RH 6.2 this weekend with a AIW 128 AGP card with no
problems.
> The default resolution wasn't great, but Xconfigurator fixed that problem.
If
> you have < 6.2, I can't guarantee things. I think that XFree86 3.3.6 is
the
> first version to support the 128 chipset to any useful degree.
>
> PS. I haven't tried anything with video capture yet. I mainly just wanted
it
> to work for display in X.
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> Jonathan Ashbrook
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> IBM Microelectronics
>
>
> ThomE wrote:
>
> > I got really good help with my question about installation on a very old
> > laptop and determined that it wasn't that good of an idea so I want to
try
> > Linux on my main system. Before I put down the cash on a new modem, I
have
> > a winmodem as of this date, I wanted to know if there was anywhere
online or
> > if anyone knows if the ATI All in Wonder 128 16meg video card is
supported
> > in X Windows? I'm doing this for the hell of it in my spare time this
> > summer and I don't want to spend the money and find out some things
aren't
> > supported or will require a great deal of work to fix.
> >
> > Thanks again,
> >
> > Thome
>
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From: Staffan Emren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Which distribution for file server?
Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2000 09:38:52 +0200
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I'm setting up a file server at home, and this will basically be my first full out
>install with Linux in this sort of setup
> (I'm never installed Linux for a server before, only on my workstation for fun).
Welcome to the brave new world! Actually, it's not that much different
from a workstation setup.
> The computer will be a P166MMX, 48MB RAM, 4MB ATI Video Card, 10 or 15GB Hard Drive.
Enough for a "simple" server with only a few users attatched. However
you should consider adding more RAM. The graphic card is not important,
since you don't run graphics on a file server, unless your stuck with
the M$ thing... :-)
> I was thinking about installing Mandrake 7.2 because I have experience installing
>it. However I know it comes with KDE loaded
> by default.. is this a mistake? I've heard KDE is a memory pig, and I'm not sure how
>it will do on 48MB of RAM.
X itself is a "memory pig", and whatever window manager you run will not
change that. But it's as simple to avoid as not starting X (boot into
runlevel 3, don't run startx).
The most popular distribution for server use is Red Hat, although the
NFS have been quite a pain in the ass since they switched fron nfsd to
kernel nfs in 6.0 and upwards (I think this have to do with the kernel
development however, and can not be blamed on Red Hat. Probably other
distributions have the same problem). Since Mandrake is more or less a
Red Hat with a little different "look and feel", I recomend you use it
as you have dealt with it before.
>
> ANy advice appreciated!
Hope the above was of some use. :-)
Best regards
Staffan Emren
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: How to change CLASSPATH ?
Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2000 00:34:41 -0700
CLASSPATH = $CLASSPATH:/usr/local/mysql/the.jar
export CLASSPATH
Adrian wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> Can anyone help I need to add the mysql java classes to the classpath
> but cannot find a way to do it .
>
> Any help would be gratefully received .
>
> Adrian
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From: "danish" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Need help for upgrade!!
Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2000 16:10:08 +0800
Hello everybody:
I use redhat6.0 and install g77 on it.
Recently i upgrade my system to redhat 6.1.
The problem comes!!
I compile the fortran code which is successfully compiled on 6.0.
It failed and showed the following message:
/lib/libc.so.6: undefined reference to `_dl_origin_path@@GLIBC_2.1.1'
/lib/libc.so.6: undefined reference to `_dl_lazy@@GLIBC_2.1.1'
/lib/libc.so.6: undefined reference to `_dl_dst_count@@GLIBC_2.1.1'
/lib/libc.so.6: undefined reference to `_dl_dst_substitute@@GLIBC_2.1.1'
/lib/libc.so.6: undefined reference to `_dl_platformlen@@GLIBC_2.1.1'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
I have tried to use "ldconfig"
It doesn't work!!
And /lib/libc.so.6 is already linked to /lib/libc-2.1.2.so.
So.......how should i do to fix it??
Thanks.......
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dirk Frieborg)
Subject: SVGATextMode
Date: Sun, 06 Aug 2000 16:33:49
Hi...!
Yes, of course it was SVGATextMode to have more than 80x25 on the
console screen -- Thanks!
But, to make it sensefully usable, there's still a lot of missing
things. Available modes are not as much und not as like as I want, and
a refresh rate of 59 Hz is even worse.
Of course I've read man's, doc's and HOWTO's; I've even spent two hours
searching the web, but it seems like I'm the only guy in the world who
has a Diamond Speedstar A50 AGP and wants to configure his SVGATextMode
properly. :-I
The most essential lines from my ~/.X.err:
XFree86 Version 3.3.6 / X Window System
Operating System: Linux 2.2.13 i586 [ELF]
SuSEConfigured drivers:
SVGA:
server for SVGA graphics adaptors (Patchlevel 0): sis6326
Using XFree86 SiS driver version 3.0.0
(--) SVGA: Found 8MB board, treating like 4MB.
(--) SVGA: using programmable clocks. 1*)
(**) SVGA: chipset: sis6326
(--) SVGA: videoram: 4096k
(**) SVGA: Mode "1024x768": mode clock =3D 84.990
(**) SVGA: Mode "800x600": mode clock =3D 58.550
(**) SVGA: Mode "640x480": mode clock =3D 37.440
(**) SVGA: Virtual resolution set to 1024x768
In the TextConfig sample file, there _is_ a line for SiS-Chips. Below
this, one can read a commented clock line: Settings for those chips are
not known yet and should be taken from the XFree86 setup.
But I couldn't find anything. If I'm pasting hte three clock values
from above into my TextConfig, SVGATextMode complains about there
should be 16 clock values. where do I get them? Or how can I
find out, which clock chip resides on this card? Referring to the
output (1*) it seems like there _are_ programmable clocks?
Any hints?
--
That's it/95...
... Dirk Frieborg ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Interested in kerosene lanterns by Petromax[R], Geniol[R], AIDA[R]
and Aladdin[R]?
-> www.petroleumstarklicht.de
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From: "nilesh bhala" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
Subject: NEWBIE:date problem
Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2000 14:27:50 +0530
hello !
i have installed Red Hat linux 6.2 on my system in server mode.the machine
has two lan cards.
during installation i opted for "asia/calcutta" time zone.
installation went quite smoothly.
every thing seems to be running quite fine.
there's no problem (no error) during bootup process.
But whenever i run LINUXCONF and exit from it , i get following
messages-------
1)the file /etc/inetd.conf as a revision date in the future.this probably
means that u system time is wrong or as been wrong at some point.
2)the file /etc/sysconfig/mouse as a revision date in the future.this
probably
means that u system time is wrong or as been wrong at some point.
3)the file /etc/x11/fs/config as a revision date in the future.this
probably
means that u system time is wrong or as been wrong at some point.
==================================================
what does these messages mean ? can they cause any problem ??
how to stop these messages from coming ?
i checked my bios clock settings and system time and found them to be o.k.
this problem only comes while exiting from LINUXCONF.
pl. reply at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
thank's
regards--nilesh bhala
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From: "Andy Nock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: can't boot suse linux reliably
Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2000 10:07:14 +0100
I have Suse 6.3 on an MMX and have put Lilo in MBR with Win95 as default
boot. I think Lilo config is OK as Windows always boots OK and Linux
sometimes does. But most times I select linux boot option, after displaying
"Loading....", it either just hangs (have to reset) or restarts whole boot
sequence. The same happens when I boot from a floppy with the kernel image
(vmlinuz) dd'd to it, and with root device set to correct partition of hard
disk. I think this suggests a problem in the kernel image itself, and not
Lilo. rdev shows the following which seem right to me:
root flags 0
ramdisk size 0
offset /dev/hda7 /
swap /dev/hda6
If you can suggest anything I can do to boot more consistently, I'd
appreciate it. Unfortunately most of my stuff, including installation CDs,
etc, is in storage at the moment as I've been away for some time.
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From: "Andrew E. Schulman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: partitioning q
Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2000 05:44:31 -0400
> Buying another disk will make your problem go away, dedicate a disk to Linux
> only and you can still mount your /dos and read files
No, don't buy another disk! Geez, you have 30 Gb, that is a huge amount of
space!
The problem is that poor brain-damaged Windows can only comprehend one
primary and one extended partition per drive. This doesn't always fail, I
run a system at work that violates it and there's no problem. But in
principle it is true, and at other times when I've tried it, Windows has
seen phantom or merged partitions, or partitions that won't hold a format.
The solution is to repartition-- sorry. Keep hda1 as your Windows
partition, then put everything else into an extended partition, hda2.
(Right now you have two primary partitions, hda1 and hda2, and one
extended, hda3, containing all the others.) I suggest that you use DOS
fdisk to perform this operation, as it will enforce any limits and
partition types that Windows needs. Once that's done, use linux fdisk or
the linux installation procedure to add the linux partitions inside hda2.
By the way, some people claim that Windows also is too stupid to understand
if Windows partitions aren't all together at the front of the drive. So,
you can keep your Windows data partition, but you should probably make it
hda5 (first logical partition within hda2).
Good luck,
Andrew.
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From: "Andrew E. Schulman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: partitioning q
Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2000 05:45:59 -0400
> Buying another disk will make your problem go away, dedicate a disk to Linux
> only and you can still mount your /dos and read files
No, don't buy another disk! Geez, you have 30 Gb, that is a huge amount of
space!
The problem is that poor brain-damaged Windows can only comprehend one
primary and one extended partition per drive. This doesn't always fail, I
run a system at work that violates it and there's no problem. But in
principle it is true, and at other times when I've tried it, Windows has
seen phantom or merged partitions, or partitions that won't hold a format.
The solution is to repartition-- sorry. Keep hda1 as your Windows
partition, then put everything else into an extended partition, hda2.
(Right now you have two primary partitions, hda1 and hda2, and one
extended, hda3, containing all the others.) I suggest that you use DOS
fdisk to perform this operation, as it will enforce any limits and
partition types that Windows needs. Once that's done, use linux fdisk or
the linux installation procedure to add the linux partitions inside hda2.
By the way, some people claim that Windows also is too stupid to understand
if Windows partitions aren't all together at the front of the drive. So,
you can keep your Windows data partition, but you should probably make it
hda5 (first logical partition within hda2).
Good luck,
Andrew.
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Crossposted-To: alt.linux,comp.os.linux.misc
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (M. Buchenrieder)
Subject: Re: Modem doesn't work (and it's not a WinModem)
Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2000 06:40:33 GMT
[Note FollowUp-To: header]
[Citations were already messed up]
"Kristofor Wiklund" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>> I've just installed Slackware 7.0 on my new computer. I have found
>that
>>>my modem does not respond under Linux, but it does under Windows. As I
>have
>>>stated it is not a WinModem. It is 3Com 56K modem that I have used on my
[...]
>Its a PnP ISA card and uses /dev/ttyS1 (COM2 under windows)
Linux isn't a PNP OS. You'll have to use the isapnptools for this
modem card to have it recognized in Linux. BTW, you'll have to disable
your COM2 port in the system's CMOS if you want the modem to be on
/dev/ttyS1 , otherwise you'll get a HW conflict.
Michael
--
Michael Buchenrieder * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://www.muc.de/~mibu
Lumber Cartel Unit #456 (TINLC) & Official Netscum
Note: If you want me to send you email, don't munge your address.
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Error message about floppy drive
Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2000 09:32:17 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Roy Troxel wrote:
>
> I'm running Red Hat 6.1, and every time I boot up, I get the message:
>
> "Mounting local file system mount: /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device"
During boot-up???
Are you attempting to automatically mount a floppy then?
Is there even a floppy in the drive during boot-up? (there shouldn't
be!)
I expect that you are trying to automount the floppy. Change /etc/fstab
to solve this (change the 'defaults' to 'noauto' in the options part).
Eric
>
> As a result I can't always read what's on a linux-formatted floppy disk.
>
> I've tried using linuxconf to mount the floppy, but that returns a similar
> error message.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Roy
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From: "Markus Feldmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ISDN Problems
Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2000 12:43:04 +0200
Hi, all
I�ve got a problem configuring ISDN on a red hat 6.1
installed is an avm a1 card (working)
isdn4linux and isdnconfig packages (working)
with isdnconfig I can configure different provider accounts, for each
account a file
in /etc/sysconfig/provider/conf-providername is generated.
On bootup /etc/rc.d/init.d/isdn takes these to generate and config ipppx
devices,
at the moment there are two provider accounts, so I�ve got an ippp0
(working) and
an ippp1 that doesn�t work, when I try " ifconfig ippp1 " up followed by an
" isdnctrl dial provider "
the ipppd complains about a not available resource / device.
When i flip the two provider files, so that the second one becomes the
alphabetically first and
restart the isdn subsys (ippp0 is now the second provider) still only ippp0
works, so the provider
config is fine. So what can be wrong? If I do an " isdnctrl list all " the
ippp0 and ippp1 settings appear
to be the same, except for numbers and names.
anybody got a hint ?
thanx,
Markus.
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From: CDWV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to setup X?
Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2000 10:50:03 GMT
In article <DKZf5.10160$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"fred dorn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> try the XFCom-i810 X server!!!
> you can get it from :
ftp://ftp.precisioninsight.com/pub/precisio/XFCom/
Those are way too old : get them directly from intel :
http://support.intel.com/support/graphics/intel810/linuxsoftware.htm
You also forgot to tell how to copy the rpms on the /usr dir.
In bash mode, there's no drag&drop :-)
Tom
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